History of prostitution; its extent, causes, and effects throughout the world being an official report to the Board of alms-house governors of the city of New York

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...population (2,362,000) is within a fraction of ten thousand. We have seen that Mr. Mayne in 18-10 stated his opinion to be that there were about eight thousand regular prostitutes in London, qualifying that statement by a profession of total ignorance as to the irregulars who did not make prostitution their only means of living. Mr. Mayne had peculiar sources of information open to him, and it is more than probable that his opinion was well founded. From the above calculation, from the best sources available to us on this very obscure question, we are satisfied to assume ten thousand as at least a probable approximation to the number of regular prostitutes in London. Mr. Mayne, in his statement on this subject, mentioned that ' An estimate of Cork was made in 1847 for the 1ledico-Ohirurg-ical Review, which gave two hundred and fifty prostitutes living in eighty brothels, besides one hundred clandestine prostitutes. Their ages were stated as between sixteen and twenty years.-there were 3335 brothels. Some authors have attemptedto make a calculation of the number of prostitutes on the basis of this number of houses; one has assumed three, another ten. Dr. Wardlaw has fixed upon five women per house, without, as it appears to us, any precise reason for preferring that figure. These different opinions may be thus worked out: 5 women in each house would give..... 16,675 prostitutes. 4 " " " (as in Dublin) would give 13,340 " 3 " " " (as in Cork) " " 10,005 == We have not been able to obtain Mr. Mayne's statement z'psz'.s-.sa'mzls-uerbis, and failing that we may be in error, but we should be inclined to think that, in his official capacity as a magistrate, and in his personal character as a lawyer, Mr. M...